About a month ago, just before Thanksgiving, I decided to ‘Liveblog’ work. Enjoy! (Names are changed/redacted)
9:40AM
Trying to make the box that closes a popup discontinue saving when nothing is selected. It’s tedious business and I was working on it most of Friday as well. I’ll be having a P~~~~ meeting in a hour or so I think. TR is going to be late, says his kid is sick.
Last Night I ordered The Secrets by Michael A Stackpole. $160 is a bit steep for 100 6 page pdfs and a 50 page guide to writing, but part of that goes to Katrina victims, so I guess that makes up for it somewhat? I’ve already started reading them. The 21 Days to Novel is exciting.
9:54AM
Just did an update to the M~~~~ homepage. This usually involves cutting and pasting the links and text JG sends me into the text property of the homepage node. Does that make sense? Not bloody likely.
10:46AM
Got the Box figured out. Set the original value to equal the default value if a new value has not been chosen. Success! Now I’m onto researching Bulk Upload Response messages for A~~~~.
Also spent 20 minutes talking to MS and CB about Fallout 3. This is a daily routine. KM emailed me, she thinks winter break is going to be weird since she won’t see me every day. It’s true. Also, pretty sure that’s proof we have not become the dreaded ‘married couple’.
10:53AM
Few small changes to my dev work from before, blah! Km wants me to get an MBA. I’m not
completely opposed. I’d rather…
11:14AM
Lunch soon. As I was saying, I’m not sure about an MBA. English or Comparative lit sounds more enthralling. Slowly being potentially somewhat convinced. I remain undecided and officially opposed.
It’s also likely involve moving to NYC, that never-ending hellhole of unfortunancy.
It’d likely be a group of us and as unpleasant as I’d potentially find that, from an artistic sense it does seems rather quaint. I picture a rag tag group of students struggling in the city, myself dutifully archiving everything for later use. I’ve let Hemingway and Miller lie to me about impoverished city life…
Money is the problem, really. It’s too expensive for me to take on at current, regardless of interest.
Work time. More soon!
11:29AM
My javascript code doesn’t work in IE. Ugh! Cross browser crap! ugh!
11:39AM
So close to lunch. Mmm food. Exercise hasn’t gotten as well as I’d hoped. I need to renew my inspiration and lose 5 pounds. Didn’t hike on Sunday..most unfortunate.
11:41AM
As I was briefly mentioning before, I intend to put my novel idea through the 21 Days to Novel steps (part of the Michael A Stackpole stuff I purchased). It should hopefully be superfluous; Most of the steps seem to revolve around clarifying the world, characters, and plot. I should have that pretty well figured out, that was point of all my editing, but we’re going to make double sure and get some practice for the next time I go through the process. It’s rather inspiring being back on my novel. I still haven’t actually sat down and written, but prep work is getting done. I’m also going to go through my outline and make sure I have plot hooks/buttons, at the end of each one. Short scenes, plot hooks, a decent plot. I’ll get the technical details down pat and hope I’ve got enough talent to carry the style.
12:16PM
Noon! Still trying to figure out the IE6 issue, also the A~~~~ server may be having issues. Previews are slow. Why???
I should submit Delirium somewhere, just to put it in the running. Not sure where. It’s a task for tomorrow.
Psyched for The Secrets. Can’t wait to read them tonight, but I also think I might finish up Fallout 3. Good times! I’m going to be freaked out after Thanksgiving since I’ll have all my Henry Miller books. I stress myself, but..Henry Miller, excellent. Such style and elan!
Back to work!
12:24PM
Lunch! Peruvian Goulash with Cherry Pie. Most acceptable!
12:52PM
Lunch adjourned. Back to work! Blah! Only 4 hours to go…
12:55PM
Make change, refresh, test. make change, refresh, test. over and over. Music to Red Alert 3 is entertaining…the bombastic russian theme is great.
1:04PM
Remix of Hell March, classic! I grew up destroying to the world to Hell March! Frank Klepacki…good times.
1:30PM
Pulled up some activity logging on a store for JG. A~~~~ always a source of stupid projects. Easy but pointless.
1:45PM
Not sure my code is even the cause of this problem. Everything of mine is commented out and I still have issues. Most curious. I told JG to test on his computer.
AD still bothers me. She doesn’t come to mind often, but she does seem to update facebook frequently now. Is there a way to turn those updates off.? I’d really rather not get the doom-in-the-stomach feeling every time I check to see who poked me. I have considered messaging her, but nothing to be said really. It’d end up either dismal or rude. I miss the acquintanceship, but I distrust it’s existance outside of my perception and I don’t think she’d appreciate being found. And besides, these last few weeks have been…well…very happy and pleasant, some of the best I’ve ever had.
2:12PM
Solved. RR had some code in the action that was having issues. Oh well. SP got
back to me on the big A~~~~ issue…basically he doesn’t know either. Hmm. I’ll try changing
the post to a get, but that’s about all I can do. A~~~~ is going to be hounding my ass soon,
I’m sure.
2:31PM
Responded to SP. I have a few changes that might work to maybe make. EG commented on my stealthy divergence from P~~~~ tasks. Huzzah!
3:05PM
Doing missing asset tests. Also decided that my new year’s facebook status will be
the lyrics to Auld Lang Syne. Such a sad song. I’ve got plenty of old acquintances who
should probably be forgot.
3:15Pm
I spend a great deal of time telling myself that I want nothing to do with her. See above. I suppose I miss talking to her a bit more than I allow. A fruitless line of questioning.
I’d be very curious to know what she has said/written about me over the months. Probably little.
3:26PM
Possible solution to moving aOrderPath. Kind of janky. Testing. Hour and a half left. “Live Blogging’ is kind of fun.
3:56PM
Still testing. Hour left. KM wants me to go to Long Island for New Years. Urge to read/play Fallout going critical. Secondary Motivation supports enabled. Currently within normal operating specifications.
4:01PM
Dozen or so actions to modify. Baah. Disinterest quotient nearing level threshold.
‘End of Day’ routine nearing activation. Digg already pulled up…
4:03PM
Did I mention that I won in Fantasy Football. I’m 8-4 with 2 games left. I’m very likely,
though not locked, to make the playoffs. I could lose both and still get in. Another win
should lock me for the spot and I face the lowest record next week. I’m not looking forward
to the playoffs though, I suspect annihilation. Really wishing I had LT and Anquan Boldin right now. Doing better this year than last for sure though and I took 2nd in Baseball…
4:13PM
Red Hot Chili Peppers…songs msotly sound the same to me. Very distinctive singing. Too bad it’s not for me. Step and a half from the same adventurous sang-froid I associate with The Doors.
4:27PM
Jumpin Jack Flash! 33 minutes to go. I might use this Work Blog as a Servusamanu entry.
It’s a writing exercise, right?
4:40PM
20 Minutes left. So dark outside too. Unfortunate! Got a few last things to do. See y’all another day. Adieu!
